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Feed Monkey
08-03-2011, 02:43 PM
In 1964, "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken Kesey gathered a group of friends and artists, collectively known as "The Merry Band of Pranksters," they painted a school bus in all sorts of psychedelic patterns, dubbed it "Further," then hit the road for a cross-country trip to the World's Fair in New York. Along the way, they hooked up, took plenty of acid, freaked out, visited various celebrity friends and eventually got back to California where they set up a series of parties called the "Acid Trip" which helped to kick the drug-fueled "Flower Power" movement into overdrive.

All of that is documented in Magic Trip , the new documentary from filmmaker Alex Gibney ( Taxi to the Dark Side ), this time co-directing with his...

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